Re: string vs list processing

[Bill Gribble]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 02:59:15PM +0200, Sascha Ziemann wrote:
> Any suggestions for a HTTP replay? ;-)

Be smart about when you call string operations.  In Gnucash, we use
guile to assemble multi-megabyte HTML documents.  You can't go around
string-appending every "<" to "p>" to construct this size string; the
garbage you generate is ridiculous.  You will get much better
performance if you cons up a list of component strings, reverse it at
the end, and apply string-append to the whole list.

b.g.